spot at the tip, the longest crest-feather measuring 30 x 3 millimeters; 
this chaetura drab color extending down the back of the neck, form¬ 
ing a slight mane on the upper half of the neck, the color paling to 
hair brown on the lower half; white tips are small and inconspicuous 
on the back of the neck, but larger and conspicuous on the sides of 
the neck; anterior border of neck, below tlie white area bordering the 
naked gular pouch, whitish, with pale drab bases to the feathers^; 
t^The lower neck, in this species, somewhat resembles the young of Pel- 
ecanus philippensis and of P. rufescens , both of Gmelin. In this 
connection, cf. Oates, "Birds of British Burnah," Vcl. II, 1883, p. 
236 and Ogilvie-Gr ant, "Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum," 
Vol. 26, 1898, pp. 471-475. 
median portion of back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and entire under 
parts pure white, except a tinge of drab on the extreme upper breast; 
bastard-wing and primaries blackish brown with pale yellow shafts to 
the feathers; secondaries brown in the middle, with broad, pale neutral 
gray edges, and with the shafts yellowish white at base, becoming dark 
brown terminally; scarjulars, wing-coverts, and exposed portion of sec¬ 
ondaries light neutral gray, tipped or edged with pallid neutral gray, 
and with white bases or inner webs to the feathers; rectrices light 
neutral gray, slightly edged externally and tipped with pallid neutral 
gray. The label supplies the following data: "Beet leaden—webs dark¬ 
er. Irides dirty white. Bill pale leaden; tip of upper mandible or¬ 
ange , base and orbital skin dull blue. Gular pouch grayish /hite." 
(Dr. W.L . Abbott .) 
Me asurement s of type (adult female).-- "Length 521 inches" ( V/. L . 
